Copper Seedeater / Sporophila bouvreuil
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Copper Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Loxia bouvreuil Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.154
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: capsee1
Type Locality: He de Bourbon; error, Bahia, Brazil, designated by Hellmayr, 1904, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 54, p. 520.
Author: Statius Muller
Publish Year: 1776
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos seed < σπειρω speirō to sow; φιλος philos lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila 1) Cab. Pyrrhula Tem. part. Spermophila Swains. 1827. ... 1) σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. Amazonica, Callyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.
bouvreuil
French Bouvreuil bullfinch < Bouvreur bullfinch < boeuf ox.
● ex "Bouvreuil du Cap de Bonne Espérance" of d'Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 204, fig. 2 (syn. Serinus alario).
● ex “Bouvreuil de l’Île Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 204, fig. 1 (Sporophila).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
